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Here I was thinking BMW drivers were jerks because they refused to use their turn signals, come to find out they've just been behind a paywall the whole time.
My mind is blown right now
I think they are just jerks but good point there 😂.
@@florinpandele5205*wheeewwww* (the joke flew over your head)
Yeah, that too.
It was a certain generation of BMW that had dumb turn signals. They didn't work like they did in every other car. All current gen BMW have working turn signals.
Vehicles should never require an internet connection.
Agreed. You can always update them with an SD card right? Didn't we used to do that with maps and such?
All about control!
I'm happy with my '07 Toyota that has no fancy features
You are correct.
But sadly, every single vehicle sold as new in america in the last five years - essentially has a variation of an internet connection. Example, finance any new car over that time period for proof.
Miss one payment, no problem - they’ll still mail you a courtesy reminder and also try to call. Miss a second payment by one single hour - they’ll send a signal so that your vehicle will not start. It will not start until payment agreements have been reestablished. Only the dealership or also only the financial company can bypass it.
Imagine needing an internet connection to start your car while you are in a remote wilderness.
@@dilpickle491 My 2018 Toyota still has 2 sd card slots for media and maps. Its sad how many clowns keep buying these new crap wagons. Aftermarket saved my car from this mess.
@@WhatWillYouFind what aftermarket accessories did you get?
Imagine buying a TV and you have to subscribe to see the color red.
I hacked my ole 32", and it shows everything in red. No blue beam. All I had to do was let the power supply to the gun go bad.
"It's the year 2030, you own nothing and you've never been happier"... that was a real article written in 2019
The fact that someone is ok with buying something, a car if you will, that harbors some type and lvl of connection to the company that they can enable and disable features on your car is a direct demonstration of lower iq in my understanding.
Auto highbeams suck anyway - even competent auto manufacturers can't get it right - no way BMW would be able to.
Don't give them ideas
GM introduced auto-dimming headlights in 1952. Truman was President.
I don't understand, what's the relevance of the second phrase?
@@AlphaGarg Americans will measure anything in any non-metric unit they can get their hands on. To be fair, Japanese also used to count their years using reigning monarchs. Or on a more serious note: using a name can help visualize how long ago it really is.
@@AlphaGarg Just to emphasize the amount of time that has passed since this became available.
And it was a shitty photocell.
@@lordgarth1 But it was Hot Shit for 1952.
After social media was invented, companies figured out how dumb their customers are and decided to take advantage of it.
You're not wrong, social media allows algorithms to know everything you buy and prefer, and to estimate customer IQ/conformity from a wide variety of indicators, and this data is used to milk every drop from the most impressionable (easily duped/brainwashed) subgroups.
@@kesamek8537 Great comment. At last, someone that understands how this works. Social media and most all Apps also gain access to a persons contacts and call logs, so "birds of a feather" can be identified as well. Basically, if you hang out with suckers, you're likely a sucker as well. An incredible amount of data is leaked by Apps and social media, and it can all be used to screw the user.
I think social media was created TO dumb down people.
Knowledge is power (over you, potentially).
Partially, I would agree with you. But it would be more like: "damn so many stupid people are out there. Why not take advantage, and then subscriptions started ;)
BMW is not a selling car company any more
It is a car rental company
BMW selling DLC
Word
"you're not in the hamburger business, you're in the real estate business."
BMW is junk. Always has been.
you will own nothing, and be happy -klaus schwab
"Anti-lock brakes and airbags and you have to pay extra for them..." DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS!!!
Exactly what I was thinking.
Every time I put an absurd idea into the ether at work, it inevitably comes into reality. I now say nothing when in meetings for fear a bad idea might be taken to be serious.
Until 2010 that was the norm in Brazil.
the entire brake system is a subscription, replacement pads not included
@@saigyl9149 or available. remember the Tesla's with no brake pads installed.
Those items used to be listed on the window monroney, they were a feature added into the total price. Not sure if they are now, but even though they wre required, they wre still listed as selling points, and justification for the package price. Tire monitoring system charge??? I don't want it, but the new laws make me have it. Convenient yes, I have older vehicles without them, and I look at the tires, and check the air if needed. NO!!! I DONT WANT TO PAY $150.00 to make my car stop beeping, because a tire sensor failed. I own an air gauge!
This is turning out like the modern videogame industry where incomplete games are released then completed via updates.
Cyberpunk was still worth it!!
Why should they release completed products when there are millions of people who are willing to pay for incomplete products just based on hype.
@@BillClinton228 you took the words right out of any Ubisoft exec's mouth
The fact that they can charge you to activate it means they can deactivate it even after you paid... That's what I don't like...
Exactly
Well, deactivating it after you’ve paid for it is an excellent way to get sued.
@@EnthalpyAndEntropy That's true, although BMW doesn't seem like a company that acts like they are concerned about that, which is a problem.
@@EnthalpyAndEntropyI haven't read their ToS, are you even aloud to sue or is it forced arbitraition?
@@EnthalpyAndEntropyyeah just pay like 5% of profits made from it and people will forget it.
“Built to last” and “comes as standard” aren’t phrases we hear attached to the selling of products anymore.
George Carlin on Advertising....should be on every school's curriculum.
@@benwu7980 Bill Hicks, too.
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 Yeah, love Hicks too. I rewatch Relentless about once a year.
Can't wait to see custom ROMs for cars floating in the Internet 😂
Back then "innovation" meant improving the quality of your product, now it means increasing the profit margin by any means necessary.
4:17 this is an inherent cahracteristic of our current system of distribution of resources (capitalism). Maybe ur fighting against the wrong people if u dont want this to happen. Trying to go against individual companies will not stop this issue from popping up in every other industry.
If they are charging you for a feature that is not only already built into the device but also does not require any extra effort or resources from the manufacturer in order to work, we are no longer talking about a subscription, we are talking about a ransom.
This is a much better take than the majority of the video. Highbeam auto is already in the car. You paid for it. You own it. What BMW is doing is remote controlling it to be off.
It's cheaper for them to produce a car with everything included and disable it on the software level, than it is to adapt each car's hardware to the options you specced.
And if you don't subscribe for the feature, you're still paying BMW for developing the required parts, service hierarchy and software that allows disabling the feature for you. Hopefully you're happy with your bang-for-the-buck for choosing the purchase a BMW car.
It would be literally cheaper for BMW to allow all these features as standard! They are not trying to be cost effective, they are just trying to extort maximum amount of money from you.
Do you think their service network is designed to be cost effective?
@@irfuel This was completely normal in the software industry 30 years ago. They would give you the software and a license file which controlled which features were available, how many users could use the software, etc.
@@jrd33yep and back then it was very easy to manipulate the software to get every function and multiply license files.
Back in the late 2000s and early 2010 we could easily unlock features in our cars the same way since the ECUs where easy to access with a numeric code.
Today software developers made sure this is impossible with a forced connection to their server that “lends” you a license and checks for manipulations.
The same thing car manufacturers do these days and it’s even more ridiculous since the car itself is still a piece of hardware.
The problem is that people who have no clue just accept it.
We should completely ignore companies who do such shady things, it is just insane!
Screw that. Even $5k Chinese cars have high beam sensors. These stupid car feature subscriptions are going too far.
They had these on cars in the 70’s.
People with too much money are becoming less and less discerning about what they throw their money at. It's ruined gaming ...now games are full of micro transactions that are anything but "micro". You can spend thousands of dollars in one game, and the "whales" always do. It reinforces this BS and keeps it here, ruining things for everyone else. Now cars will be the same.
They had it in the 50's. Look up Autronic eye. @@mensaswede4028
😂😂😂😂... and now they are called smart cars
Many of those so called whales are literally game employees, trying to "motivate" people...
1:25 fine print under the payment options.
"Valid as long as technical requirements apply for the respective vehicle"
AKA they can send software updates to your car and the latest software may not support high beams on your vehicle, but will conveniently support it on the latest model
As someone else said: this is RANSOM!
Think about it: everything that's needed to provide this feature is already in the car, meaning you bought and payed for it already! You own ALL the necessary resources to use this feature, therefore there's no justification for the manufacturer to deny you from using it! (And no: it supposedly being "cheaper" for BMW to built it into the car regardless of whether the customer specs that feature or not is NO justification. First off that doesn't change the fact providing the feature costs BMW nothing after the sale and secondly, if it is indeed cheaper, then this should just be a base model feature!)
It's the sane as if BMW sold you the car, built to your order and when you come to pick up the car, they want to charge you a fee for entering their garage where the car is parked and otherwise refuse to give you the car. That's ransom!
Also, the fact that BMW can just remotely disable turning on the feature means it's sabotaged.
This is different from a feature like map updates, that cannot work without external resources, because there's no technical reason for the automated high beams to require external resources and the only reason it does is so BMW can disable your use of it, which should be considered sabotage!
So true , Thank You
They can make their money when the vehicle comes back because the feature doesn't work.......Why ???? Because there are bugs stuck to the sensor....$200 sensor cleaning bill. The people paying for a feature like this, would be the same people not to check if the sensor is obstructed.
Calm down there sweetie
@@cm0cm Found the BMW customer.
soon we'll see "BMW offers card reader to start engine" hahahaha
You will own nothing and be happy. You will not drive you will use a subscription service to go places. You will take a RoboTaxi to anywhere you need to go. You will use an app. It's all coming soon.
Don't give them ideas!
Start car now or wait 10 min and start car for free
@@Spewfafter these ads...
2025: “BMW offers a subscription to activate airbags”
1:25 "...buy it permanently." Until a TOS removes the "permanent" feature and replaces the pricing tier like some video game companies, or just outright drops support for it.
Or maybe when you sell your car, the buyer may not have the features any longer. Also certain repairs may disable features.
yeah, read the TOS and the fineprint, I suspect "unlimited" is as "revocable" as the rest.
Yes, it wouldn't be a first..
@@robertlawrence9000 I trust the BMW aftermarket community to fix this "issue" when the cars inevitably end up on the used market.
and used buyers will have to buy it again of course
Back in the early 2000s German car makers still considered electric windows as a optional premium feature and I think it was Mercedes who "invented" the software-lock for components that were already in your car in the early 2010s.
Just when I thought that they can't get more ridiculous with the "subscription" ideas, BMW proves me wrong with its "free trial" for highbeam control.
Have you considered it is so cops can right you a ticket for flashing cars to warn them about the speed trap? BMW gets $10 for every one written.
Buying a car that you won't completely own sounds thrilling
Them ads against right to repair weren't a warning against RtR, were a promice what corporations will do with every aspect of our lives...
Them ads against right to repair weren't a warning against RtR, were a promice what corporations will do with every aspect of our lives...
and you might not even get the quality you pay for - I don't know if thats still a problem, but at least 10 years ago you'd always have to take care not to buy an American built one when buying Benz or BMW used here (living close to Ramstein so there's lots) as the build quality was visibly worse (gaps, back doors being higher than front doors, more failures at the same milage)
So they were cheaping out on their American side of production while selling you the car for basically the same price
You also pay extra in petrol to lug around these features that you can't use.
Sheer driving pleasure 🤡
I have a 2016 bmw 750. A couple years ago my wife was in another city when the car battery died. She had it towed to Firestone who put a new battery in for 270 bucks but car still wouldn’t start. After 3 hours of troubleshooting tech saw online that the car has to be programmed at the dealership to accept the new battery. Delicate electronics I was told. What a joke. You couldn’t just have a program button in the car to analyze a new battery? Firestone put old battery back in and didn’t charge my wife a dime. Holiday weekend, car towed for second time to local bmw dealership, dealership closed, my wife is in another state, had to rent a car to get back home. Over 1500 dollars waisted over a dead battery including bmw charging me over 700 for the new battery. DO NOT BUY A BMW. Expensive to buy, expensive to fix, and they are not reliable vehicles. In the last 6 months I have had $7000 worth of mechanical work done. The air shocks need to be replaced next and the estimate came in at $14,000. The guy at auto shop said he was shocked at the price of bmw parts. Oh, and to keep with the subject of Louis’s video, I pay a yearly subscription for access to certain features on the car.
you got swindled!
Just sell it already 😢
BMW driver moment 😂
Thats the cost of cramming in stupid levels of engine power in a tiny sedan chassis.
(Minus the battery, that battery part is fked)
Sell!
Anything related to improved safety on cars shouldn't be paywalled.
My favorite reply to "but things used to be worse" or "but things are worse in this specific other location" is "so are we supposed to wait until things get that bad before we do something about it?"
Waiting for BMW to charge me $300 per month for breathing "purified" air in the cabin, because it gets processed through a 19 cent filter that costs an additional $1500 to replace every 3 months, else the car goes into limp mode, until I buy my BMW.
Please don't give them ideas.
they might as well connect the exhaust to the AC if you don't pay
Few weeks ago seen one japanese car. Has to remove driver pedals to change air filter. To remove pedals need to remove things from engine room. I didnt know they are woke alphabet supporters like that plane company. Maybe designed in EU for EU people. Mechanic told there are many cars like that
@@artur8403 lmao, so it's a car designed by "EU people" (who must certainly be woke), but then built in japan (also woke maybe?), but meant for the EU market which tends to import very few japanese cars. This MFer got sold a culture war and bought it! XD
But seriously a lot of japanese cars do suck for repairability, probably a consequence of them arranging the registration cost so that it encourages exporting used cars after 6 years, so it's easy to get away with making stuff difficult to repair as long as it doesn't hurt the resale price too much. Pretty sure this was originally done to grow their car manufacturing industry, but now it's probably only continued due to car manufacturers lobbying to keep the ridiculous profits they get from it. Just the sort of inefficiency you can expect when you allow business owners anywhere near the government.
They did that 80 years ago. It didn't work out for them.
The real crap starts when insurance companies start requiring these features as a condition of coverage. Remember you have ZERO RIGHTS when it comes to cars.
if insurance requires it, then its a safety feature. And if that's the case, then laws will force them to include it standard.
Regardless. Im not buying any car that has the ability to connect to the internet. Fuck that.
I hope your car is pre-2000 then. If your car didn’t make headlines about subscription paywalls or can’t stream CZcams, it doesn’t mean that it’s not connected to the internet
@@grigorioschristodoulou5229 Pretty much, though some cars as far back as the early 90's could connect to cellular...
Lets be real car, those cars are already connected to the internet, watch insurance companies requiring that you share driving data with them and if you drive in some unsafe way they raise your policy price, it's not only safety features behing a paywall.
@@creato938 They already steal your info and sell it. Modern cars have sim cards in them and track what you do with your car, how you drive and what you connect to the car. The car sends that info over the onboard internet connection.
Oregon here. Just waking up and the video title reminded me of how much I wanted a BMW when I was younger.
I am older now and will be happy with a nice BM, and that is what I will go work on at this time.
The disheartening part is there's people who will fall prey to this trap because of "conditioning standards". I strongly pray to anyone in this position to see the light and have a breakthrough in their endeavors.
Cheers 🍻
The little icon BMW chose for the high beam assistant brochure looks exactly like someone giving you the middle finger...a perfect representation for BMW basically answering the question "Why have subscription headlights? because fuck you that's why"
This is why they want you to buy electric cars. Cos they can be turned off, if you don't buy your Monthly subscription. This is really alarming.
Soon the Cars will be bought on subscriptions. You will never own it.
We here at BMW will soon be offering seating in our vehicles for a small subscription fee!
Upon failure of payment, the seating will promptly remove itself from the car. BMW takes no liability in potential damages or injuries.
They already have a subscription for the usage of their turn indicators.
@@anotheruser9876No that's the stalk being finicky so drivets learned to not use it to prevent breaking their own cars
Can make doors locked by default and to use door you swipe card and make payment. Want passenger? Pay extra for passenger door. Everyone crawls over driver seat 😂
@@artur8403 then that's an illegal taxi
I had an 87 Lincoln town car with this feature. It worked surprisingly well with no internet connection.
we literally regressed to those coin slot cars at malls. but now they are adult sized and coins are adult money adjusted.
BMW stands and has always stood for "Big Money Waster"
BMW: Broke My Wallet, Brutal Money Waster, Bring More Women
Breaks Most Wallets
Causes broke man walking
Not always. In the last 30 years, I would agree though.
Bavarian Money Waster
No in Germany it means "Bayrischer Mist Wagen" which literally translates to "bavarian crap car". Most germans consider bavaria to be the incest ridden devils child no one wants to be asssociated with.
As if buying gas isn't enough of a subscription.
You aren't paying the car manufacturers for that, and they can't let that slide.
Not to mention high insurance
It's not that subscription like. At least if you drive less, you pay less for gas. Insurance on the other hand...
Do you know HP instant ink? THAT is a subscription.
My wife's Acura has this as part of the sport trim set of features...wow.
I look at it this way - if you have a vehicle that you "bought" that has a recurring fee for integral and normal functionality you didn't buy the car. You are only renting it. And you paid full-price for that luxury of eventually having the manufacturer tell you at a point in the future that you do not actually own this item.
Wow, auto-high beams! What an age we live in. Didn't GM invent that back in the early 1950s and is pretty much a standard feature of many modern cars today? I wonder what kind of idiot would pay for such a thing.
The matrix LED head lights by AUDI (?) are actually very impressive.
My 1990 Lincoln Continental had that. But it was so unnecessary because only crap-lousy drivers can't be bothered to turn off their high beams themselves.
GM's Autronic Eye 1952
My civic literally has this 😂
They bought a BMW, so stupid comes with the territory lol.
The way things are going, we may actually see the funny meme where a pilot is about to land, and he’s reading “Please register this software to continue using it!” in his screen, becoming a reality…
I live in Australia. I drive on the left of the road. I’ve hired a BMW 4 series in LA when I was on holidays. I figured out the indicator storks in the rental BMW …. Now that you mention it, it’s probably why other stayed away … indicators.
Anyone arguing this must realize that if we keep letting companies get away from this eventually the air we breathe will require a subscription service...
CZcams seems to have lost the first few seconds of this video.
Yeah, seems like got in mid conversation. Also, no standard Louis greeting.
It's available if you subscribe to premium+ trial of Rossman but only for 10 minutes per week.
What, missing out on a feature you expected to be there? 😉
For those of us that subscribe, we saw the beginning.
@@johnlucas6683 And no LG outtro
Babe, did you remember to pay the brake subscription this week?
"Where are you right now, hon?"
"In a ditch"
"ah, ok"
You don't need brake subscription, if you didn't paid the gas pump subscription before
I prefer having control of my high beams anyhow. It’s a solution in search of a problem, a problem solved with money (go figure) (edit) Let me tell you a story about the bmv drivers test center which is separate from the bmv by about 100 yards. I tried to call the drivers test building, but kept getting redirected (it was a 1-800#) so I got frustrated. I drove to the testing center. There was one employee and myself in the entire building. I said ‘can I get a business card so I have your number, I need to make an appointment’ Tje guy proceeded to tell me they do not have a phone in that building, no phone line, no calls in or out…you’re supposed to use an online portal, which had crashed on me 4 separate times. So, I made the appointment…then it dawned on me, how would one reschedule if a conflict arose???? There is no answer
sounds like a part time job to do what you are doing. and you are PAYING to go to work? what a joke.
My $12,000 used 2004 town and country had that feature. Worked perfectly
It's so nice of these tiny little indie companies giving us free previews of the features they're about to steal from us 😊❤
We all know that unlimited licenses are unlimited... until they're not.
Thank you for exposing all these things....
Circa 1952, Autronic-Eye by GM is an auto highbeam control without any subscription. Not sure we’ve improved much in this direction =]
Oldsmobile in 1952, made history along with Cadillac when the brands offered GM's Autronic Eye, the first automatic headlight-dimming system.
So, 72 years ago, this WAS news, and without a subscription! Figures!
My 34 year old car already does this. It's called me not being a distracted driver and manually turning my highbeams off when a car is coming. I feel like all these "convenient features" are all leading towards taking away basic features so they can sell them back to the users. That and the giant touch screens that will probably eventually have advertisements on start up that you have to pay to get rid of.
They already all have an advertisement on startup. Every modern car plays an animated video of the company logo when you turn it on.
@@jessicav2031 Mine says "Kenwood", but I can change it to Lamborghini ... even though it's a Mazda. 😅
My 86 Lincoln mark 7 and many other cars had this auto high beam feature many years ago..
@@DarkForce2024 Yeah, another thing I miss sometimes - a lot of older devices had software that could be easily modified by the user, and the manufacturer didn't care. Today, it's claimed to be too much of a "security risk" and they try to lock it down as much as they can.
@@logicalfundy Proprietary software is a security risk in itself
General Motors helped pioneer advance headlights when it unveiled the Autronic Eye, billed as the first automatic headlight-dimming system, on Jan. 25, 1952.
My '23 Ford Maverick has this as a standard feature. I've gotten too used to it and have to remember to dim my high-beams when driving my wife's Focus. Kinda reminds me of hotels. The cheap places offer free WiFi as an advertizing bullet point to get customers in the doors. The high-end hotels charge you for WiFi use...
But Louis, Indicators have been optional extras on BMW for years!
Top kek
@@NSUGSindeed
All you needed was to buy spare blinker fluid
😂😂😂
Yeah, no way we are gonna pay the $69,420 extra for them.
Best part is that auto high beams suck on every car I’ve ever had them on. You just end up flashing oncoming traffic constantly.
...or driving in darkness because some random road sign reflected your high beams
Disagree or I had a luck in my experience, I rented a cheapest car couple years ago (nissan micra I believe) and it worked more than fine. We travelled on Cyprus - there is a lot of light reflectors on the roads and it worked perfectly. (I am not experience at all - don't have any satisfaction driving a car, living in a city and prefer bicycle)
Have you ever find yourself puzzled at why the driver far behind flashing their lights all the time, it's because of auto high beam.
Sure it help keeping everyone from getting blinded, but it's so annoying. I don't have that on my car, and when I'm on rental with it, I always turn it off.
My Hyundai had that 10 years ago for free.
Also BMW is really scamming company! I bought the motorbike GS 1200 R for almost 23.000€, 4 years later, always serviced and washed only at retailer with original parts, suddenly display dies. I never got caught in rain or anything, but bike was services and cleaned 1 week prior to breakdown. Anyway, I get to dealer and they didn't want to fix it and wanted 1400€ for new display which I didn't even break, so I turned to representative of BMW in my country and they also refused. Then I emailed BMW directly (in German HQ), which redirected me back to our country representative and they refused me again. It was not my fault display broke down, for reason dealer told me that it was water damage, but they refused to take responsibility with damaging it during cleaning. I would take even 50% discount, but they didn't budge. So I sold bike for 13.000€ and bought KTM instead. F**k you BMW, never again. The only downside is that BMW was really really good bike for driving and had electronic suspension and I was able to make 600+km per day, with KTM I almost die after 400km trip. But never again BMW, I won't buy even a screw from you as you screwed me over over your mistake!
I remember when people were upset about on disc DLC back in the day. And here we have another example of that shit creeping into every other medium.
They are trying to maintain the fiction of infinite growth in a finite world, Of course they have to figure out how to squeeze you from every possible angle.
Exactly. Companies are artificially paywalling basic functions as a mean to extract the maximum wealth out of the people who buy from them.
@@Praisethesunson Imagine owning a company not go public, and just aim to produce a specific product, not aiming to expand, but just to do a good job, people buying your stuff, and you just live with the very livable amount of money you make, maybe even do less hours and rather enjoy life.
@@danieldorn9989 This is what I don't get. People want to become uber rich. 10 million isn't enough, 100 million not enough, they want to be billionaires. Why? In the process your whole life goes by and then you go in the ground forever. I'd like $3 mil just so I know I don't have to work ever again if I don't want to (or can't, my back and my hands hurt), and live somewhere with clean air and water.
@@danieldorn9989i wish!
@@Praisethesunson Im sure whatever asshole MBA came up with that for them still got laid off to cut costs 🤣
I'm working on a subscription-fork for restaurants.
The forks are equipped with a little motor, that can change the fork from rigid usable to ununsalble flexible and vice versa. When the customer picks up the fork, he notices the unusable state and is offered swiftly a fork subscription to continue their dining experience without using their hands!
You have to make a one use per payment to be profitable tho, like with a weight sensor, once something is picked up and unloaded it goes back to unusable.
Otherwise you can just not give the fork, and if the client pays the extra he get a normal fork lol
Cars had this technology in the 1950's without a subscription .... really
You know, one of the promises of capitalism to consumers is that as time marches forward processes get more efficient. Technology gets better. New inventions come out. And as a result, the products we buy get either cheaper for the same quality or the quality goes up and stays the same price. That's the promise for consumers.
In reality, there's only so much juice you can get out of an orange. Because companies have prioritized the other promise of capitalism, unlimited growth for their investors, we get BS like headlight subscriptions. I'm not saying get rid of capitalism, but maybe some regulation would be nice. Some consumer protections. Because without these protections the pitchforks come out.
They didn't learn their lesson yet
because there has never been an actual repercussion from this, only non BMW buyers crying online about it.
@@abracing199its because non bmw people are smart people
If you buying an bmw it's only leasing it unless you going in blind and buying a car you know nothing about and that's the sad part with 90% to 75% poeple in IMO
These kind of companies only learn a lesson then they lose money and not reputation
Yet
I thought this was a joke initially. My 2017 Mazda has this... Lmao
Cadillac incorporated "automatic eye" several decades ago, free of charge. I first saw it on a reregistered Cadillac Coupe de Ville here in the UK in 1982.
Your vid reminded me of a gripe Ben Heck made about Xbox's newer controllers being harder to mod for accessibility because Microsoft had reconfigured the board design to be more efficient. He complained that the mods took longer, but he was quick to point out that he applauded their engineers for being innovative and focusing on efficiency.
From a subscription heated seat to a headlight? What other s#!t will they pull off next? A subscription to use the flippin stereo?
be like a cross between a jukebox and a one-armed bandit ¿?
They already have that. It's called XM Radio.
turn signals
IT WILL SAVE THEIR BUYERS MILLIONS
@@Moon_Presence They could make you pay for the ability to turn it on*
shh quite giving them ideas 😂
Whats even more amazing is paywalling a feature that has been available on some vehicles since 1952! Oldsmobile introduced it over 70 years years ago.
As an optional feature.
Why would they give you a feature like this for free? Automatic headlight assist has been an optional features on most cars for the past 20+ years.
*Correct!*
Optional is one thing. Pay for it through your nose every month is another. Big difference!
@@Hybris71 it is the same?
Everyone is also ignoring that instead of paying for it on a subscription basis you can also buy it outright forever.
I had that feature on, if I recall correctly, a 1968 or 9 Chrysler New Yorker.
Wow, that transition in the beginning was perfect.
Not long till they charge people 50 cents every time you hit the brakes
Fhk my card got rejected ERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! 💥
HEY!! It used to be 'nickel and diming', when did the price go up to 50 cents?!🤔🧐😏
You say that ironically, but it's actually already happening. Many car companies monitor your braking/driving characteristics and send the data to insurance companies, which will raise your insurance cost if you're deemed an "aggressive driver", due to data such as "high frequency of brake application".
The future is now
“My cars are meant to go, not stop.”
- Ettore Bugatti
Tesla already does that.
Remember, for all us super nerds, electronics can be gutted and bypassed. Also, find a mechanic friend to increase your power level
Electronics guy and Mechanics guy and you got a very strong team
My E84 N20 base model with NO iDrive was one the last great cars sold by them. Can solve most of your problems with a basic cheap-o scan tool. No overly complicated entertainment system and still has all the tactile buttons and dials. I like to focus on the drive.
Thanks for standing up for the consumers!
"Does sir wish a working motor? Just insert credit card in the slot ..."
Now for the low price of $100 per hour!
Haha the problem is that BMW does not have the ability to make a working motor (saying that as a BMW owner)
Wait until they have subscriptions for a subscription...
Micro-Subscriptions in 3, 5 & 7 day passes.
@@justinpatterson5291 please don't give them any ideas! lol
Subscriptions only offered to members of the Piggybanks Of America Club. You can also get cool discounts / credits signing up for memberships with our various partners.
Dawg WE JUST PIMPED YO RIDE. WE heard you like BMW subscriptions, so we gave you a subscription to the subscriptions so you can subscribe while you're subscribing! Now THAT's dope!
As a kid I admired the one-eye thingy on the dashboard of my father's 1953 Oldsmobile 98. Back in those days, the 'high-beam' switch was a foot activated push-button on the driver's floor pan. I was told the 'eye' automatically dimmed the headlights to low beam when another vehicle approached while driving at night.
Makes a lot of sense. Especially corporate greed is getting into their heads and no one does anything about it.
Pretty soon they're gonna start charging us a subscription for having a pet! You don't own the pet but rent it!
It’s called a pet tags and most states have them already lol
Pet deposit if you're renting
Pet registration is a real thing, dunno if people pay annual kid registration though, at least not in Australia
Pet insurance is kind of like that. Monthly fee.
Luckily for us cat subjects, the cat owns us so they pay.
On the upside, there's going to be a new industry of people bypassing modules and hardwiring these features to switches or control panels.
BMW homebrew scene is cooking
Custom software modification scene is alive and well. You know those dirty hackers everyone is trained to shun. The same ones who keep alive the entire Internet and created all the software you rely on to exist. Yeah. You're welcome.
@@kesamek8537 There's no other way!
@@kesamek8537 Exactly man
I bet bmw thought of that and as soon as they spot a new board, an extra wire or a line of code, they will cancel the fuck out of your warranty.
Our Tesla got adaptive high beam via a free software update. One of the coolest features yet. It remains in high beam… but it dims selective pixels when traffic is oncoming
Drive like a real American and go high beam all the time
lol, so true! I cannot believe how many people don't care
meh, most cars have lights bright enough to be considered high beams anyways, it doesnt really change anything.
Dude this is free in Toyotas. It is a feature, I didn't use too. When a car is detected, 90% of the time it works BUT when the high beams come up, 100% you blind all the people behind that car you detected. Also, the comment bots have to start using a different butt. We are tired of the same ass. #CHANGETHEASS
I drive the lowest trim Yaris and it came with auto high beam as standard lmao. And yeah, I also never use it, because by the time it detects the oncoming car you've probably already blinded the driver.
I drive a 2018 C-HR, and I keep auto high beams on all the time, most of the time it detects the incoming car even before I realize there is one, and it doesn't activate high beams if there is enough light to see with low beams, I don't know why your car sensors are worse, they should be almost the same.
@@FanfurlioFarolfi They are fine on long, straight roads, but those aren't really a thing where I live. If the oncoming car is at an angle, it often doesn't detect it until it's quite close. Also, I can usually tell a car is coming behind a blind corner because its headlights are lighting up the foliage, so I turn the high beams off in advance. Meanwhile the Yaris realises there's an oncoming car about a second after said car has passed the bend and likely been blinded.
Also none of them seem to be able to recognise that a motorbike is not a far away car. I always get blinded by the auto dip lights till the driver realises that they haven't worked.
You're bang on, though I think the argument that it's cheaper to build everything into a car and then allow the owner to activate just the features they want is interesting, so long as the car is cheaper to start, and the activation is permanent and not a subscription. That way I could add a higher end feature later that I might have wished I had. But then again, why not just one price for the car....
This is the funniest enshittification I’ve seen thus far. A subscription service for FUCKING HEADLIGHTS Lmao I actually screamed laughing at this
my mother has a 2012 fiat that does this for free. she didnt even realize it was a feature until i turned it on for her
Absolutely spot on, re freedom. I've been messing with computers as a hobby since the very early 90s and have seen the amazing progress in capabilities along side this war on freedom waged by the big tech companies. Microsoft has been trying to force the customer to do what Microsoft wants, rather than responding to customer demand for more than 2 decades at this point. A horrible, invasive or freedom limiting feature is introduced , there's a backlash when they take the old option away, and Microsoft says "no this isn't a bad thing, you definitely need this" despite all evidence to the contrary. They never learn. Apple, Samsung, and so many others have jumped on board that mindset train now too. The only thing stopping them from brainwashing people who don't know any better are the people who push back and try to counter the corporate propaganda, letting people know they can have and HAVE had better. People don't seem to realise so much is being taken from them in exchange for a little convenience here and there.
So Wise , Thank You. As far as I am concerned it is built into my vechle I MUST be able to use it ANY WHERE any TIME. We MUST STOP the FREEDOM STEALERS.
This absolutely drives me INSANE! I have this feature on my 2011 Mercedes...I appreciate that this was no doubt an extra paid for feature or part of a "pack" that had to be paid for...but at least it was an option, paid for at the initial time of purchase and with the car forever after.
I expected Louis to move the camera back after the cat joke.
.......but he wanted it to sink in, didn't he? Well we'll see next video, LOL
This tech came out in the 1960s for lincoln and high end chrysler new yorker iirc.
I know Olds also offered it on some cars in the 60's.
How is this NOT ILLEGAL!?!?
This all started out with computer games when you'd have to pay to unlock features that were in the game that you just bought or the subscription service for MMORGP's. After that it extended in to the other industries.
It is absolutely crazy that we now have cars with features that we have to subscribe to get the use of. What next? Range limits on the car unless you pay more? Mad.
I guess just be happy you don't need to pay a monthly subscription to brake quickly, yet. Slow breaking is free but sudden breaking $17.99 a month.
Pray I do not alter the deal further -GM
Braking privileges are managed by insurance companies.
Gee thanks BMW, for letting your customers pay extra to not blind everyone else on the road. How thoughtful of you.🙄
I had that feature on my 1987 Lincoln.
You know what the worst part is? Like with the car stuff? Subscriptions make sense for something that is a service. A streaming company for example is constantly adding new things to watch. A subscription to a car function is not a service. It's just a basic function being turned on or off by you paying for some dumb reason.
I have auto high beams on my 1956 Cadillac Series 62 sedan. It's called Autronic Eye. It needs no subscription.
Wait, wut? Safety equipment on a subscription?
auto brights arent a safety feature. you can turn your own brights on. automatic headlights in general are not required. its them automatically coming on that is the "feature"
@@abracing199 I would actually describe them as anti-safety devices, as the ones I've experienced are junk.
remember those Klim motorbike airbags that required an active subscription to deploy during a crash?
@@abracing1992:59 He just explained this. The levers don't work, so what should be optional is now a necessity.
@@abracing199 Did you even watch the video? Stop with this "personal responsibility" crap and start blaming the manufacturer for asking for you to subscribe to something that doesn't warrant a subscription.
4:03 don't give the marketing team more ideas man!! 😂
Louis needs to write a book in the style of "if you give a mouse a cookie" but like "if you let BMW charge a subscription for heated seats"
First car I ever had was a 1988 Lincoln Mark VII Bill Blass. Total hooptie. Bought it for $400. Guess what it had in it? Autodimmer for the highbeams.....
I'll bet your GF made you very happy in the back seat of that Mark 7.
Which the original owner most likely optioned the car with...
Nope! It was standard on all models. @@GoodOlTazzy
@@x016601 can't find any information on that, so give the source.